Designed
Designed adjective - Done or made or performed with purpose and intent.
Fictitious and designed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fictitious" instead an adjective "Designed".
Fictitious
Fictitious adjective - Not real and existing only in the imagination.
Designed and fictitious are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Designed" instead an adjective "Fictitious".
Both words in one sentence
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Deconstructed in Bates and Weisman's version of Captain Atom, in which Cap had a fictitious rogues' gallery that the military designed for him as part of his publicly-revealed false origin.
Source: Rogues Gallery -
It's supposed to look realistic: the Mirai is mentioned as a fictitious Yukinami class destroyer, a variant of the real Kongo class destroyer designed to carry helicopters, which is in turn a modified version of the American Arleigh Burke class destroyer.
Source: Manga / Zipang
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